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Meet Ziad Dalal, CEO of Nestlé Toll House Cafe By Chip, and a man with a mission to make the humble chocolate-chip cookie go global.
Read More »Airbnb Clones Making 2012 The Year Of Peer-To-Peer Accommodations
Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon.
Read More »Beyond the Light Switch Wins 2012 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
Beyond the Light Switch , a Detroit Public Television two-part documentary hosted by Scientific American Associate Editor David Biello, has been awarded a Silver Baton 2012 Alfred I.
Read More »Ancient artifacts yield their secrets under neutron imaging
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, neutron images in 3 dimensions have been taken of rare archaeological artifacts here at ORNL. Bronze and brass artifacts excavated at the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan were recently imaged in 3 dimensions using neutrons at HFIR's CG-1D Neutron Imaging instrument. The data that is now being analyzed will for the first time give eager archeologists and ancient historians significant, otherwise wholly inaccessible insight into the manufacturing and lives of cultures that once occupied settlements within the Roman Empire, Middle East, and Colonial-period New England.
Read More »Here’s Why Nestle Chairman’s Attacks On Organic Food Are Wrong
Responding to Peter Brabeck-Letmathe's critique of organic food--that it's too expensive and downright dangerous--author and educator Anna Lappé says that he's wrong, and scared of an organic future.
Read More »Is Your Name CEO-Worthy?
We crunched the numbers to learn the most common names found among the CEOs of the fastest-growing private companies in America.
Read More »Storyboarding The Apes
In a world full of CG and unlimited budgets, one man clings tight to his hand-crafted illustrations.
Read More »Kinect Hacked For 3-D Scanning Of Archaeology Site
University of California, San Diego students will be going to Jordan soon to take part in an archaeological dig that's decidely futuristic: As they uncover artifacts and structures in the soil, they'll be using high-quality 3-D scanning to record accurate positional details--rich data that could be incredibly useful in the future. Instead of using expensive and complex imaging systems like LIDAR, however, the team will use a hacked Microsoft Kinect to do the job for them
Read More »Video: Shark attack victim on the mend
Chris Wragge talks to Craig and Jordan Mangum, the parents of 6-year-old Lucy Mangum, who was attacked by a shark off the coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
Read More »Why Airbnb May Be Worth A $112M Investment
The site that lets you crash in a stranger’s house closed a huge round of funding today.
Read More »Cool, Determined, and Under 30
Featured Articles How Cool is This? The definition of cool is constantly in flux.
Read More »Can North Africa Light Up Europe with Solar Power?
HAMBURG, Germany -- Twenty-five years after Gerhard Knies conceived of powering Europe with the Sahara Desert's sun, the North Africa Solar project has grown into something considerably more than a mere mirage, but it's still less than a reality. Part of the plan is to erect a network of solar plants that generate electricity by concentrating the heat from sunlight to make electricity, generating 100 gigawatts or the equivalent of 100 large nuclear power plants
Read More »The Green Lantern Guru
Meet Geoff Johns, Warner Bros.' new Chief Creative Officer and the go-to geek for DC Comics' ever-expanding universe. With Ryan Reynolds' emerald abs casting a glow over theater audiences everwhere this weekend, Warner Bros. will unveil its first big superhero franchise since Superman and Batman.
Read More »Can the Dead Sea Live? (preview)
The Dead Sea is a place of mystery: the lowest surface on Earth, the purported site of Sodom and Gomorrah, a supposed font of curative waters and, despite its name, a treasure trove of unusual microbial life.
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